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an independent voice Don Riddell Murdoch upert Murdoch is a con- tinuingly interesting man. At 77, with face now darkly fissured, he was in good formfor the first of his Boyer lectures for the ABC. He manages never to be quite the ruthless media baron of caricature.There’s always the hard common sense that has enabled him to run newspapers with suc- cess while others flounder. Never relax around him, however. His toughness comes through – avoid the institutionalism of idleness, shake off complacency, embrace creativity, get off welfare. “The bludger,” he said, “should not be our national icon.” He’s shrewd, too, easily picking out our weaknesses. Our education system, he said, was leaving too many children behind. “In short wehavea 21st century economy with a 19th century education system.” Murdoch is right in pointing out that we still havea long way to go. There’s still a bit of the journal- ist about him. He knows the value of a touch of colour: “I believe weneed to revive the sense of Australia as a frontier country…” which sounds more like the “Go West, Young Man” of his new country America than Australia, but no one should argue against his conclusion that we should cultivate Australia as a great centre of excellence. On immigration (keep it going) and the republic (yes, but no need to rush), he was strongly in step with the spirit of the times. But wecannot be as unreserv- edly enthusiastic as the leading article in his The Australian, a paper that thoughtfully provided us with the complete text. His demand for small government – pro-market, pro-business and pro-globalisation – was a call to go back to Reaganism. It ignored completely the hideous mess that this attitude can havewhen the administration, whether large or small, is doltish, the legislature confused and the market greedily undisciplined. It is intriguing to think how Murdoch now views his present country. Does he think America, like Australia, is “simply is not prepared for the challenges ahead”? Will America also miss out on a “golden age” of prosperity and freedom unless it undertakes radical reform? It has certainly wilfully misunderstood the challenges and dulled any gold for the past eight years with a sort of Republicanism that disgraces the history of that once great party. This was a party largely supported bythe thrusting elements of the Murdoch American empire. It’s a pity that Murdoch can no longer listen to another voice of America, the voice of a man dressed for half a century in check gingham shirt and red socks, who captured the nation from one radio station in Chicago. Try this: “The big problem is that there’s no memory of the past. Our hero is the free market. People forget how the free market fell on its face back in the Depression. And how the nation pleaded with the 2008 meets Studs R Adelaide Wine Show Dozen Our selection this year includes Trophy winners for Best Sauvignon Blanc, Best Shiraz and Best Cabernet Sauvignon in the 2008 Royal Adelaide Wine Show. In addition, six of the wines were awarded top points in their respective classes. This is an outstanding selection from some of the best award winning wines from the recent Royal Adelaide Wine Show. The 2008 Adelaide Wine Show Dozen presents 10 Gold Medal and 2 Silver Medal winners with 3 Trophies. The Wine Show Dozen offers exceptional quality, variety and value and is priced at just (GST included, delivered Adelaide Metropolitan). W Pulitzer Prize-winning author and oral historian Studs Terkel, 96, at his home last year. its government and got help. Today, all these fat CEOs say we don’t need government. And these fat boys get awaywith it, because of our collec- tive Alzheimer’s and the power of Rupert Murdoch and CNN. There is despair in this country, sure.” That was the then 95-year-old Studs Terkel talking just a year ago to Robert Chalmers of London’s Independent. Terkel, variously called America’s greatest chronicler, the greatest American broadcaster and the greatest English language oral historian of our age, died just over a week ago at 96. He made his name in books and radio in odd parallel with Alistair Cook who also broadcast into his 90s. But while Cook was polished and moved among the great people, Studs Terkel was rough and gritty and captured the stories of ordinary people as well as the famous – “a guerrilla,” as he said, “with a tape recorder.” He wrote and talked of anything, the American Dream, racial identity, the Great Depression and working lives. He talked to Martin Luther King and KuKlux Klansmen, to migrant children and Bob Dylan, to prison inmates and Tennessee Williams. He started as a DJ in Chicago then hosted an earlyTV show Stud’s Place, unashamedly Left-wing. In 1953 Senator Joe McCarthy’s Un-American Activities Committee blacklisted him. (Remember Ed Murrow’s struggle in the film Good Night and Good Luck?) Studs told the story, recalled in a Spartacus Educational report: “A man comes from New York. He says, ‘These petitions, your name is on all of them: anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, friendship with the Soviet Union… don’t you know the Communists werebehind them?’ And he said, ‘Look, you can get out of this pretty easy. All you got to do is say the Communists duped you. You weredumb. You didn’t mean it.’ I said, ‘But I did mean it.’ To this day people say, ‘Oh, Studs, you were so heroic.’ Heroic? I was scared shitless. But myego was at stake. My vanity. ‘Whaddyamean, I’m dumb?’” A network director insisted that he take an oath of loyalty, he told interviewer Chalmers. “As a porker takes to mud, so I take to disputatiousness. I’m like an alcoholic when there’s booze around. I suggested, gently and politely, that he fuck off.” Why did he keepgoing through his 80s and 90s? “Think of what’s stored in an 80 or a 90-year-old mind,” he said. “Just marvel at it. You’ve got to get out this informa- tion, this knowledge, because you’ve got something to pass on. There’ll never be anyone like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you’ve got as long as you’ve got a second to go.” His country was the “United States of Alzheimer’s.” “We forgot about whathappened yesterday.We know all about Paris Hilton. But whatdo weknow about why we are there in Iraq?” Writer after writer suggested that Studs Terkel had written his own epitaph: “Curiosity did not kill this cat.” True, he told Chalmers: “But it didn’t save him, either.” A remarkable man was Terkel. So is Murdoch. 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